WEBVTT SOLVED THE CASE IF IT WAS NOT FOR HELP FROM THIS NEIGHBORHOOD. >> IT’S MARVELOUS. MARVELOUS. THAT IS MARVELOUS NEWS. KATE: IN THE 1200 BLOCK OF RIVERSIDE AVENUE TODAY, YOU COULD ALMOST FEEL A COLLECTIVE EXHALE AS WORD SPREAD POLICE MADE ARRESTS IN THE DEADLY SHOOTING OF NEIGHBOR TIMOTHY MORICONI. THE 25-YEAR-OLD, SHOT OUTSIDE HIS FRONT DOOR AROUND DINNERTIME LAST THURSDAY. >> IT’S FABULOUS. I’M GLAD THEY DID THIS QUICKLY , BECAUSE I KNOW OUR ENTIRE NEIGHBORHOOD IS JUST SO CONCERNED. HOW DID IT HAPPEN? KATE: POLICE SAY IT HAPPENED IN THE PROCESS OF A ROBBERY. THAT 23-YEAR-OLD DEANDRE SLEET PULLED THE TRIGGER, 23-YEAR-OLD KIARA WESLEY DROVE THE GETAWAY CAR, AND SURVEILLANCE VIDEO FROM NEIGHBORS HELPED CRACK THE CASE. CHIEF SMITH: WE WERE ABLE TO GET A VEHICLE DESCRIPTION OFF OF SOME OF THE SURVEILLANCE VIDEO WE HAD AND OFFICERS WERE ABLE TO , TRACK DOWN THAT VEHICLE, AND INSIDE OF THAT VEHICLE WERE TWO SUSPECTS. KATE: WHEN OFFICERS STOPPED THAT CAR LAST NIGHT POLICE SAY THEY ALSO FOUND A GUN. BALLISTICS MATCH THE MURDER WEAPON. NO ONE OPENED THE DOOR WHEN WE KNOCKED AT DEANDRE SLEET’S ADDRESS IN SOUTHWEST BALTIMORE, BUT ONE MAN DID CHAT THROUGH AN UPSTAIRS WINDOW. WE CAME TO ASK ABOUT DEANDRE. ACCORDING TO COURT RECORDS IN 2013 DEANDRE SLEET SERVED TIME FOR A CELL PHONE ROBBERY AT GUNPOINT IN THE CITY. MORE PRISON TIME IN 2017 FOR A DRUG CONVICTION IN ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY. DOCUMENTS SHOW SLEET ATTENDED POLY, AND IN 2010 WAS PUT ON JUVENILE PROBATION FOR URINATING IN THE BOTTLE OF A FEMALE STUDENT. 11 NEWS HAS ALSO LEARNED DEANDRE SLEET PREVIOUSLY ATTENDED FEDERAL HILL PREP, A SCHOOL WHICH SITS JUST TWO BLOCKS AWAY FROM THE SCENE OF THE DEADLY SHOOTING HEIS NOW CHARGED WITH. POLICE SAY BOTH SUSPECTS ARE BEING HELD TONIGHT. THEY SAY THEY CONNECTED BOTH OF THEM TO OTHER STREET ROBBERIES IN THE CITY AND THERE IS NO INDICATION THE SUSPECTS AND THE VI

Baltimore police filed charges in the killing of Timothy Moriconi, saying he was killed as part of an attempted robbery.Deandre Devon Sleet, 23, of Baltimore, was charged with first- and second-degree murder in the killing of Moriconi Sept. 27 in his Federal Hill neighborhood in the 1200 block of Riverside Avenue. Moriconi, 25, was found with a gunshot wound to his upper body.City police said they recovered a gun that was matched by ballistics to the killing.Kiara Treasure Wesley, 23, was charged with a gun violation and additional charges are pending.Police said Sleet shot Moriconi and Wesley drove the getaway car.Police said surveillance video from residents helped crack the case."We were able to get a vehicle description off of some of the surveillance video we had and officers were able to track down that vehicle (Wednesday night), and inside of that vehicle were two suspects," Baltimore police media relations Chief T.J. Smith said.Police said Sleet and Moriconi did not know each other, and they could not say what connection, if any, the suspects had to the neighborhood.Police said the suspects are also connected to other robbery investigations.Detectives are still seeking more information. Anyone with information is asked to call police at 410-396-2100.Federal Hill residents expressed relief about the arrests."It's marvelous, marvelous. That is marvelous news," said Doug McPeters,a resident.No one opened the door when 11 News knocked at Sleet's address in southwest Baltimore.Sleet attended Baltimore Polytechnic Institute. According to court records, Sleet urinated in the bottle of a female student at Poly in 2010. He was put on juvenile probation, which he frequently violated, court records show.In 2013, Sleet admitted to robbing a person of a cellphone at gunpoint in the city. He was ordered to serve two years in person.He then received more prison time in 2017 for a drug conviction in Anne Arundel County.WBAL-TV 11 News has also learned that Sleet previously attended Federal Hill Prep, a school which is two blocks away from the scene of the fatal shooting.

BALTIMORE —

Baltimore police filed charges in the killing of Timothy Moriconi, saying he was killed as part of an attempted robbery.

Deandre Devon Sleet, 23, of Baltimore, was charged with first- and second-degree murder in the killing of Moriconi Sept. 27 in his Federal Hill neighborhood in the 1200 block of Riverside Avenue. Moriconi, 25, was found with a gunshot wound to his upper body.

City police said they recovered a gun that was matched by ballistics to the killing.

Kiara Treasure Wesley, 23, was charged with a gun violation and additional charges are pending.

Police said Sleet shot Moriconi and Wesley drove the getaway car.

Police said surveillance video from residents helped crack the case.

"We were able to get a vehicle description off of some of the surveillance video we had and officers were able to track down that vehicle (Wednesday night), and inside of that vehicle were two suspects," Baltimore police media relations Chief T.J. Smith said.

Police said Sleet and Moriconi did not know each other, and they could not say what connection, if any, the suspects had to the neighborhood.

Police said the suspects are also connected to other robbery investigations.

Detectives are still seeking more information. Anyone with information is asked to call police at 410-396-2100.

No one opened the door when 11 News knocked at Sleet's address in southwest Baltimore.

Sleet attended Baltimore Polytechnic Institute. According to court records, Sleet urinated in the bottle of a female student at Poly in 2010. He was put on juvenile probation, which he frequently violated, court records show.

In 2013, Sleet admitted to robbing a person of a cellphone at gunpoint in the city. He was ordered to serve two years in person.

He then received more prison time in 2017 for a drug conviction in Anne Arundel County.

WBAL-TV 11 News has also learned that Sleet previously attended Federal Hill Prep, a school which is two blocks away from the scene of the fatal shooting.

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BPD says Fed Hill murder motive is "robbery gone awry". Arrested is 23 yr old DeAndre Sleet from SW Balto and a woman. 2 suspected in other street robberies. BPD says cameras in n'hood led to vehicle used in crime.Sleet in 2009 had connections to Federal Hill Prep